On 14 Oct 2009, at 15:26, Sam Bisbee wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Official dump and load scripts are still useful though, but maybe
not in
very high demand.
I think the demand is actually higher than that - you're assuming
that people
want to use the built in option. I can easily see people wanting to do
regularly scheduled dumps to local or remote non-couchdb. Do a back
up to tape,
cd, back up machine that only runs ssh [or whatever], just to dump
the dump in
an archive on the local file system, etc. Especially true as more
and more IT
folk have to support couchdb: dumps are a familiar backup method and
can easily
be integrated into existing systems, whereas they may have a harder
time
integrating replication. Also nice to not have to support yet
another system
(the backup needs a backup!).
You can just copy the db files. This is way more efficient than
dumping/restoring.
Cheers
Jan
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